Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week by telephone. Mike insists that the family's times together now, though rarer, are somehow more precious for being less frequent. "I've found we've really cherished our time together," he says, "just sitting around talking and showing each other pictures. I think the joy of those times has become intensified...
...Promise of Joy, Drury (5,1 9-Spindrift, Whifney (9) 10-Shogun, Clavell
...Percy dubs, for personal reasons, the "Delta Factor") is the object of "a mild twenty-year obsession" on Percy's part. It separates man from beast; it gives him a unique tool for understanding his condition. Percy associates it with another obsession of his, the sort of inexplicable, poetic joy that everyone experiences from time to time--this he calls the "Helen Keller phenomenon," because it is the way Helen Keller felt when, later than most people, she first connected the word water with the actual item. But he also blames language for twentieth-century man's estrangement from...
...SYMPATHY. To seem not to be affected with the joy of our companions is but want of politeness; but not to wear a serious countenance when they tell us their afflictions, is real and gross inhumanity...
...Promise of Joy, Drury...